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Old Seattle Radio Saturday: dex allen, jock to mogul in 30 years...

In a Radio & Records interview when asked if Dex Allen was his real name, he said, "No. if you were a child of the '60s, you wanted to be a disc jockey, and your real name was Claude Turner, you'd probably change it too."

Luke burbank to "wait, wait, don't tell me"

TBTL's Luke Burbank will be a Halloween panelist on NPR's zane-filled radio quiz, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (KUOW, Saturday 10-11a) with guest with legendary horror movie director George Romero, the man behind Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead.

Polishing the turds… can a big, gnarly LA producer save the ron & don show?

Another producer for the silly Ron & Don Show? Not news- they use up producers like nasal inhalers.

 But Jason Stein, of LA's KFI has been hired away from his enviable position at the #1 talker in the country, to make the smart radio consumers of Seattle listen to R & D (KIROFM m-f, 3-6p).

Stephen colbert takes on R-71

www.colbertnation.com

The drumbeat, the jibber jabber, the mighty wind of right-wing media

(Please bear with our blogging lite: we're waiting for our new computer and forced to beg laptop time from strangers at Starbuck's and blogging from the library. It's a special kind of hell... ) 

President Obama said on CNN, Monday: "I think that what our advisers have simply said is, that we are going to take media as it comes. And if media is operating basically as a talk-radio format, then that's one thing. And if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another. But it's not something I'm losing a lot of sleep over."

Billy Bob: latter-day beer, boobs, and family values

Billy Bob (whose name is neither Billy nor Bob) worked long in the Seattle radio market wearing a suit. He says the experience heightened his sense of irony, and diminished his circle of friends.

By Billy Bob

More questions and comments from my half-dozen or so fans.

Dear Billy: I thought Mormon-owned radio stations had standards when it came to the type of advertisements they wouldn't accept, in particular BB&F (beer, boobs, and family values). Today on 710 ESPN I heard an ad for 1-800-DIVORCE and then a report from the Miller Lite sports desk and, as part of a station contest, Kevin Collabro does 'sports interviews' with Hooter's girls. I guess money trumps values, no?  Signed, Priscilla Pennyworth, Medina.

OPEN THREAD: Fox news: fair & balanced... or spite & malice?

Floyd brown: GOP toilet-diver pushes for impeachment

 Make no mistake. We're now in the middle of a bloodless coup – the takeover of an entire nation by the hate-America crowd – a cold-blooded gang that despises America's prosperity, our standing in the world, our trust in God and our generosity and goodness. ~~ Floyd Brown

After a brief hiatus, our old friend and Northwest homey, Floyd Brown is back.

Who's Floyd Brown, you ask? 

Old Seattle Radio Saturday: bill munson at KOL, 1966.

Munson's real name was William Ruel Bradbury and he was a career radio newsman who worked in the '60s at KOL.

Program Director Buzz Barr came up with his air name -- combining the last names of two  of the top unlimited hydro drivers: Bill Muncey (Miss Thriftway) and Ron Musson (Miss Bardahl).

They shoulda changed the locks: glenn beck key cost mount vernon $$$!

A self-serving mayor slopped the trough of a Fox News publicity pig, and it cost the city's taxpayers nearly $18k.

Mayor Bud Norris gave  controversial Fox News commentator  and talk radio host Glenn Beck keys to the city, September 28. But Mount Vernon citizens were somewhat more reluctant to celebrate.

Hundreds of demonstrators greeted Beck.